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Saturday, December 8, 2012

Set Showcase #26: 2008 UD Masterpieces Captured On Canvas

Twenty months ago, I started a mission. The mission was to complete the 2008 UD Masterpieces "Captured on Canvas" football set. I was able to acquire most of them through my case break, making trades on sports card forums, and buying them every now and then online. But after a few months into the project, I hit a wall and couldn't find any of these guys: DeMarcus Ware, Tony Romo, Matt Forte, Steven Jackson, Chad Johnson, and Devin Hester.However, I refused to quit and relentlessly tracked down the remaining six cards, one by one. And earlier this month, I finally found the last two pieces of the puzzle:

I had missed out on the Hester a couple of times, but had never seen the Ocho Cinco and actually started to question its existence. Then last month, I found both of them over at Dave and Adam's Card World for $6.95 and $4.80 respectively.

And now for your view pleasure, I present to you... my 2008 UD Masterpieces "Captured on Canvas" set:

As far as I know, this is a 57 card set, that was initially suppose to be 60 cards. However, I've never seen these three cards:

CC28 Fred Taylor

CC33 Jeff Garcia

CC34 Jeremy Shockey

I've seen a couple of Jeff Garcia patch variations, so it's possible that they made patch cards for Taylor and Shockey too. But I've never seen jersey cards for those three guys and Beckett doesn't list them on their checklist, so I assume Upper Deck didn't release them.What about you?

Congrats to you. I guess I have a white whale. There's a 2007 Ron Santo relic card in the UD Sweet Spot set. They only come up on Ebay every so often and they always get away from me. Mostly it's that I can't see spending autograph prices for a relic card (which is what the card always goes for). Still it's a nice looking card and I would like one.

Two for me, A Sadaharu Oh menko card and the Jim Brown rookie. The JB is just a matter of me getting up off the $$ as there are plenty of them around. The Oh card is another story all together. I don't think I've seen one in person.

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I've been collecting cardboard off and on since the early 80's. I'm presently collecting. But who knows what the future holds in store for me.
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